Where are the verbs in this sentence, you could not expect a life bethe forty-seven-year average.

i believe it is 'expect' because verbs are action words, and expecting is something one does, an action.

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it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.